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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1909
Page
4
Sunday routines fill Mlyria with visits and travels. Residents discuss sickness, teaching at Highland District No. 3, and summer trips to Quincy Seattle Hood River Salt Lake. Dr King’s New Discovery is praised for asthma and lung ailments. The City Drug Store guarantees trial bottles.
W Smiths entertained company Sunday while Karn Holzer reported a best horse lost to lockjaw on Monday. Frank Boyle made a business call Saturday at West Union. Ed Conner and wife visited Sunday at Isaac Conner’s home. E W Howard and wife left for Montana Tuesday to visit relatives. Wilber Patterson Ward Brabham and families and Mrs Bennett also mentioned.
Visit details include Earn Holzer's Sunday at home, Ellis Bennett visiting his mother Mrs. Will Lewis at EBigin, and George Howard moving into the Wm Brabham house. Katie Wilson of Grundy Center visited her parents, Chris Dennler tends a sick horse with Dr. Kennady, Mrs. Martha Vought visited from Donnan, Ira and Mary Bennett with Mrs. Austin Holzer travel to Vermont via New York to see Versil Bennett. Electric Bitters advertised as health builder, 50 cents, guaranteed by The City Drug Store.
West Union reports social visits and travels including Mrs J J Fennell in Elgin, Mrs Addie Wallace with Mrs R O Woodard, Miss Cora Kent from Sumner, and Mrs E R Manning from Postville and Elgin. Local plan to organize a gymnasium attracts readers. editors visiting the 101 Ranch show. Also mentions pack wolves incident, notable welcomes from Clermont and Mountauk, Lake Minnetonka trip, and a church donation of a silver baptismal set. Dr King New Life Pills advertised by City Drug Store.
Real estate transfers for the week ending September 2, 1909 reported by W. J. Rogers list transfers in Clermont and nearby towns. Names include Louis Kern to Peter Anderson, G R Hall to Fred Rothlisberger, J T Ridler to BH Nilsson, Henry J Jack to Carl D Dummer, Stephen Arnold to Jacob Grete, and others with lot and block references and amounts. Local marriage licenses noted and North Pole claim discussion referenced from the Enterprise, plus various local movements and store visits.
Monday orderly notices show residents visiting relatives and traveling to Des Moines Cedar Falls Chicago Minneapolis and Minneapolis. People mentioned include Nels Helgerson Wm Hendershott W R Blake Ruth White Cassie McAlavey Geo Cain Anna Appelman and Rev Bursett with travels to Walker Patmnersburg Ossian Victor and Cedar Falls. Miner notes and a Bucklen Arnica Salve advertisement conclude.
Irving the actor recounted a humorous episode with Lord Tennyson while rehearsing Becket. After dinner, the poet poured him a glass of port and, unknowingly, finished the bottle himself. The next morning Tennyson questioned Irving’s health, jokingly noting he had drunk a lot of port the night before.
A dated column describes Chinese ancestor feasts with elaborate dishes and ritual silence before dining. It then recounts Irish humor from Windsor and Eton chamber of commerce dinner where Lt. Nugent tells tales of soldiers in war and battlefield banter.
A bride habitually kept a few flowers in the dining room vase. One afternoon she arrived late and attempted to arrange some romaine leaves while her colored maid exclaimed she feared the bride would forget, noting they needed greenery. The bride then surveyed a centerpiece of romaine salad leaves on a mahogany table.
A dapper young man at a breakfast table causes a startling sound after glancing at the bill. The new waitress flees to the kitchen as the head waiter clarifies it was the train caller ordering his breakfast. Ole Peterson, September 22.
Nels Helgerson of Elgin area reported a valuable horse missing after it lunged while tied in the barn last week. The horse had been valued higher recently, with a $200 offer noted days earlier. A. E. Schupback, Miss Lena Schupback, and Miss Louisa Butikofer plan visits to Lamar Missouri and Kiowa Kansas after leaving Tuesday. Adolph Ammenson owns a dog found in poor condition, shot and cut, likely a good field dog. he may retrieve the dog by contacting Ammenson. Ira Bennett family heads to Vermont for a visit with W. N. Bennett. Some corn fields are maturing despite frost risk. Gottlob Dennler and Jacob Christen returned from Switzerland praising the trip, with Emil Matthys joining the return voyage to stay in America.
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